Return of the legend: The Commodore 64 Mini arrives in March

The past two years have been good for retro gamers. First, we got NES Classic Edition from Nintendo back in 2016. In 2017, arrived SNES Classic. And now, probably the biggest legend of them all, Commodore 64 is making a return.

USC-powered mini computer, dubbed as The C64 Mini, will be available in March, 2018 with suggested retail price of 79,90 € in Europe, appx. $70 in United States.

The retro gaming kit will include a miniature version of Commodore 64 chassis (unfortunately the keyboard is just for the authentic look and is not functional), a USB joystick (for those too young to remember, joystick is a gaming controller with one stick and two buttons..) and pre-installed 64 licensed games.

Device has HDMI output that sends out 720p video in correct 4:3 aspect ratio, two USB ports for joysticks or a USB keyboard and internal storage for saved game states and game records.

List of games that ship with the device:

AlleyKat

Anarchy

Armalyte: Competition Edition

Avenger

Battle Valley

Boulder Dash

Bounder

California Games

Chip's Challenge

Confuzion

Creatures

Cyberdyne Warrior

Cybernoid: The Fighting Machine

Cybernoid II: The Revenge

Deflektor

Everyone's A Wally

Firelord

Gribbly's Day Out

Hawkeye

Heartland

Herobotix

Highway Encounter

Hunter's Moon

Hysteria

Impossible Mission

Impossible Mission II

IO

Jumpman

Mega Apocalypse

Mission A.D

Monty Mole

Monty on the Run

Nebulus

Netherworld

Nobby the Aardvark

Nodes Of Yesod

Paradroid

Pitstop II

Rana Rama

Robin Of The Wood

Rubicon

Skate Crazy

Skool Daze

Snare

Speedball

Speedball II: Brutal Deluxe

Spindizzy

Star Paws

Steel

Street Sports Baseball

Summer Games II (inc. Summer Games I)

Super Cycle

Temple of Apshai Trilogy

The Arc Of Yesod

Thing on a Spring

Thing Bounces Back

Trailblazer

Cosmic Causeway: Trailblazer II

Uchi Mata

Uridium

Who Dares Wins II

Winter Games

World Games

Zynaps

The C64 Mini emulates original Commodore 64 completely, so plugging in a USB keyboard will allow the user to start writing BASIC commands, just like the original did.

The C64 Mini starts shipping worldwide on 29th of March, 2018 and it should be available from most electronics stores worldwide.

Didn't the King's quest series originate on this platform? Anyway, I feel those that grew up in this era would appreciate it, but kids today would be bored after 5 minutes of gameplay and it'll collect dust.